The company behind the Trinity Broadcasting Network televangelism empire will have to pay $900,000 to its co-founder's granddaughter after a California appeals court backed a lower court's finding that the business was liable for emotional distress the grandmother caused her granddaughter after the then-teen was raped.

A Maryland psychological treatment center must produce the mental health records of a now-deceased Boston clergyman who admitted to sexually assaulting minors because the information is relevant to an ongoing case, a state court of appeals said.

With a trial date looming, Norwegian Cruise Line settled a negligence case Friday over debilitating side effects a teenage swimmer allegedly suffered after onboard medical staff treated her minor foot infection with the antibiotic Levaquin despite warnings against its use for minors.

A Texas appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a suit accusing a Plano hospital of causing a patient’s death due to medical malpractice, saying the patient’s estate didn’t timely serve a notice of claim to the appropriate party as required by state law governing limited partnerships.

The full Third Circuit's recent ruling that abusive Transportation Security Administration officers can't assert immunity for certain claims of wrongdoing under federal law is a big win for travelers, but concerns that the federal government potentially faces "enormous liability" are unfounded, experts said.

An elderly man who accused a strip mall owner of causing his fall near a curb will get to bring forward his claims again after a Florida state appeals court said Friday that the trial judge was wrong to exclude certain testimony that "eviscerated" the man's case.

A group of insurance companies with claims against Pacific Gas and Electric for payouts they made to victims of California's 2017 and 2018 wildfires announced Friday that it has agreed to settle with the bankrupt utility for $11 billion.

USA Gymnastics has asked the Indiana bankruptcy court overseeing its restructuring for more time to file a Chapter 11 plan, saying it’s making progress in dealing with its insurers and the hundreds of sexual abuse claims that felled it.

A unit of aerospace giant Avco could be on the hook for a $28 million verdict in a single-engine plane crash after the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an accident investigator’s expert testimony was wrongly tossed after trial.

Claims from a mother who accused an ambulance driver of falling asleep and crashing her vehicle while transporting her daughter to a medical center will move forward, after a split Texas appellate panel said the allegations constitute negligence claims, not health care liability claims.

The producers of "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" put profits above the safety of the film's cast and crew, a stuntwoman alleges in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, saying they reneged on a promise to pay her medical costs after she lost her arm in a horrific on-set accident.

A federal court declared a mistrial Wednesday in a man's injury case against Amtrak over a 2017 train derailment near DuPont, Washington, following a doctor’s testimony about a plaintiff evaluation that was not disclosed to the rail company.

The widow of NHL player Todd Ewen attempted to overcome a hurdle at the center of concussion and head injury lawsuits against the league Wednesday and urged a California federal court to reject the NHL's argument that its labor agreements cover her claims.

The owner of a California pornography studio on Wednesday urged the Ninth Circuit to find that Atain Specialty Insurance Co. is required to fund its defense of lawsuits brought by performers who allegedly contracted HIV on the job, saying a lower court improperly applied a policy exclusion for sexual abuse claims.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax is seeking $400 million over claims CBS defamed him by airing and promoting one-sided interviews with two women he says falsely accused him of sexual assault, according to a suit the former Morrison & Foerster LLP partner filed Thursday against the news outlet.

A California federal judge on Wednesday denied class certification to parents accusing Pop Warner of deceiving them about the risks of head injuries their children would face, saying they haven't shown that the organization told all parents the same things.

A Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice cast doubt during a hearing Wednesday over whether a Philadelphia-area rehabilitation center could rely on a statute limiting the liability of mental health care providers to avoid claims over the death of a patient.

A New York state appeals court on Wednesday ordered a new trial in a suit accusing a hospital and an emergency room doctor of failing to hospitalize a patient with severe pneumonia that caused his death, saying certain evidence was improperly allowed by the trial judge.

A new civil lawsuit against New England Patriots wide receiver Antonio Brown alleging he sexually assaulted a personal trainer could put the NFL commissioner's power to discipline players to the test at a crucial moment as talks heat up over a new labor deal between the league and its players.

The Sixth Circuit has rejected a bid by two Endo units to order an Ohio federal court to vacate its order disqualifying a former U.S. attorney and her firm BakerHostetler from representing the companies in sprawling Ohio multidistrict litigation involving racketeering and corrupt practices charges against various opioid makers and distributors.

The host of a 2016 canoe race hit with a suit by a racer who was seriously injured in a freak accident told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday that a Hawaiian federal judge misread its policy with Great Divide Insurance Co. when she found the insurer didn’t have to defend it.

A Massachusetts appeals court on Tuesday revived a teenager's suit against the owner of a shoddy fence that allowed her and her friend access to train tracks, saying she could plausibly claim negligent infliction of emotional distress after witnessing her friend killed by a train.

Purdue Pharma LP and its owners, the Sackler family, have reached a tentative deal to settle roughly 2,000 opioid suits brought by local governments, states and tribes, with the Sacklers agreeing to pay $3 billion from their own fortune, a source involved with the negotiations told Law360 on Wednesday.

A Philadelphia chemical manufacturer can’t avoid an ex-employee’s claims that he was improperly fired for complaining about racial discrimination and the company’s failure to accommodate an injury, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled.

Expert Analysis

In the absence of a federal rule governing deposition location, federal courts are frequently called on to resolve objections to out-of-state deposition notices. Recent decisions reveal what information is crucial to courts in making the determination, says Kevin O’Brien at Porter Wright.

This week, the NFL opened an investigation into New England Patriots wide receiver Antonio Brown after he was accused of sexual assault in a Florida federal court case, but the NFL should get out of the business of discipline for off-field behavior — for five reasons, says Ronald Katz at GCA Law Partners.

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 57 and its state counterparts provide a method for expediting claims for declaratory judgment that warrants closer attention than it has historically received from litigants and courts, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

My conservative, Catholic parents never skipped a beat when accepting that I was gay, and encouraged me to follow my dreams wherever they might lead. But I did not expect they would lead to the law, until I met an inspiring college professor, says James Holmes of Clyde & Co.

The Wayback Machine, which archives screenshots of websites at particular points in time, can be an invaluable tool in litigation, but attorneys need to follow a few simple steps early in the discovery process to increase the odds of being able to use materials obtained from the archive, says Timothy Freeman of Tanenbaum Keale.

As pharmaceutical and medical device companies rapidly integrate virtual clinical trials into their research and development of new products, clinical investigators and corporate counsel must avoid data breaches, transmission errors and other missteps that may trigger novel plaintiffs' theories of recovery, say Kim Schmid and Sheryl Bjork of Bowman and Brooke.

The Judicial Conference Advisory Committee’s proposed addition to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 7.1 needs to be amended slightly to prevent late-stage jurisdictional confusion in cases where the parties do not have attributed citizenship, says GianCarlo Canaparo at The Heritage Foundation.

It is fortunate for both plaintiffs and defendants that a bill that would interfere with Maryland's successful asbestos case management program recently failed in the state's General Assembly — and the legislation should not be revived in a future session, says Vincent Palmiotto of Clyde & Co.

Marketing and economic theories provide an array of theoretical and empirical tools to examine the evidence and assist triers of fact in determining causal issues related to an internet platform’s liability for its users' conduct under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a key question in recent actions against websites, say consultants at Analysis Group and attorneys at Wheeler Trigg.

The amended Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(e) provides explicit criteria for imposing sanctions when electronically stored information has been lost during discovery, but courts are still not consistently applying the new rule, with some simply ignoring it in favor of inherent authority, say Matthew Hamilton and Donna Fisher at Pepper Hamilton.

According to our recent survey, the one simple attribute that attracts both in-house counsel and C-suite executives to content is utility, but it’s also clear that both groups define utility differently and prefer different content types, says John Corey of Greentarget.

The shift to autonomous vehicles may transform the litigation landscape relating to car accidents — but instead of resulting in monolithic liability for automobile manufacturers in all cases, it will likely mean that liability will depend on the technology involved, the warnings regarding its use and the actions of other parties, says Geoffrey Wyatt of Skadden.

This month’s controversy surrounding alleged financial misrepresentations by Burford Capital underlines the need for litigation financiers to unite in educating the public about the value of litigation finance, lest opportunists use cases like this to disparage the industry as a whole, says Charles Agee at Westfleet Advisors.

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